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Search was always a byproduct of Advertising. Don’t blame Google for sticking to their business model.

We were naive to think we could have nice things for free.



When google search first appeared, it had nothing to do with advertising. In fact, the founders wrote a paper on why advertising would be bad.


Found the zoomer.




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